Why Nuxt generate publicPath does not work as expected at first visit?

Question

I'm using Nuxt v2.15.8 to create a static website using nuxt generate command. I expect the requests to the server for fetching the main js and CSS files to be made to / path, as I specified in my nuxt.cofig:

export default {
  ssr: false,
  target: 'static',
  // ...
  build: {
    publicPath: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' ? '/_nuxt/' : '/',
  },
  // ...
}

When I visit the generated static website, despite what I specified in the build config, at first it tries to load data from /_nuxt/ path which does not exist. As you can see in the attached pictures, after getting a 404 error for this route, it loads data successfully from the correct path which is /, but it should not send those requests to /_nuxt path to begin with.

Request to the wrong path

Request to the correct path

Any idea about how can I eliminate those initial requests to /_nuxt/?

Answer 1

So I fixed the issue by adding the following lines to nuxt.config.js:

export default {
  ssr: false,
  target: 'static',
  // ...
  build: {
    publicPath: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'development' ? '/_nuxt/' : '/',
  },
  // added the following lines
  hooks: {
    render: {
      resourcesLoaded(resources) {
        const path = `/`
        resources.clientManifest && (resources.clientManifest.publicPath = path)
        resources.modernManifest && (resources.modernManifest.publicPath = path)
        resources.serverManifest && (resources.serverManifest.publicPath = path)
      }
    }
  },
  // ...

}